Quotes About Narcissism

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

Vanity, thy name is

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening

La plupart considèrent que l'une des raisons principales de cet égocentrisme vient de l'usage des réseaux sociaux comme Myspace, Facebook et Twitter650, qui sont en grande partie consacrés à la promotion de soi.

God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes...He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is--A purely egoistic cause.

I realized that in order to fully pass this threshold of the self-healing journey after narcissistic abuse, I had to surrender my ego's attachment to the false sense of security that I had created through isolation and not risking my heart in relationships.

Here is something for you to write down and remember: facing reality is never pessimistic. Believing the truth, no matter how difficult that may be, is the ultimate act of optimism because it opens up the panorama of options that will free us from further deception. Taking off a blindfold is never an act of pessimism. Getting angry at the truth (or at the messenger who delivers the truth) is a self-deceptive act of narcissistic theater, and it is a colossal waste of time.

It is the "gospel" of self, in which Jesus dies to make you into a bigger and better you, a "gospel" in which God is here to serve you and help you fulfill your dreams, and where the measure of all things is not how God feels about it but how you feel about it (or how it makes you feel).

No minor-party candidate has ever won the presidency or, for that matter, even come close. For the most part, these ego-driven 'independent' adventures in electoral narcissism push the political process further away from their supporters' professed goals, rather than advancing the insurgent group's agenda or ideas.

Trump's need for constant affirmation and his almost complete inability to talk about anything but himself.

There was some argument about this, because he could read headlines and articles about himself, or at least headlines on articles about himself,

many around Trump were surprised to record an unexpected character note: he wasn't paranoid. He was self-pitying and melodramatic, but not on guard. Negativity and betrayal always startled him. Narcissism, really, is the opposite of paranoia: Trump thought people were and should be protecting him. He was surprised, and all the more deeply wounded, to realize that he had to look after himself.

Le combat narcissique durerait aussi longtemps que la sociabilité elle-même, il en serait l'ultime vestige, mais il finirait par s'éteindre. Quant à l'amour, il ne fallait plus y compter.

Se habla de supermercados del sexo, que tienen un catálogo bastante completo de su oferta porno; pero les falta lo esencial. Y es que el objetivo mayoritario de la búsqueda sexual no es el placer, sino la gratificación narcisista, el homenaje que una pareja deseable rinde a la propia perfección erótica. [...] la meta que se persigue [...] es la embriaguez narcisista de la conquista.

Narcissistic individuals, who are mainly concerned with protecting their self, fall apart when the external conditions turn threatening. The ensuing panic prevents them from doing what they must do; their attention turns inward in an effort to restore order in consciousness, and not enough remains to negotiate outside reality.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!

Según Katz, el perfil psicológico de Hugo Chávez define un caso extremo de «trastorno de personalidad narcisista». Según explica Katz, al presidente venezolano lo aquejan un falso sentido de superioridad, la idea de ser único, excepcional y tener derechos que otros no tienen, recurrentes delirios de grandeza, una gran necesidad de ser admirado que coexiste con sentimientos de minusvalía, menosprecio a sí mismo y ocasionales ataques de derrotismo y fracaso.

Loneliness is a narcissistic sociopathy of infantility in which you feel a complete mental disconnection from the genitals, a complete sense of humility that deprives you of any kind of fear.

Vanity and pride are autistic complexes.

A capitalist regime is more likely to produce these narcissistic behaviours in its citizens compared to a socialist country.

Anybody who wishes to go beyond the free-will of another person is already practising narcissistic characteristics.

Here too, we can see that not being open to learning something new does not automatically make someone a narcissist. In fact, a narcissist is required to be more knowledgeable in many fields; mostly in psychology.